reclaim

Meaning

Verb

1. (transitive) To return land to a suitable condition for use.
2. (transitive) To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
3. (transitive) To claim something back; to repossess.
4. (dated, transitive) To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.
5. (archaic, transitive) To tame or domesticate a wild animal.
6. (archaic, transitive) To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
7. (archaic, transitive) To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
8. (obsolete, rare) To draw back; to give way.
9. (Scotland, intransitive) To appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.
10. To bring back a term into acceptable usage, usually of a slur, and usually by the group that was once targeted by that slur.

Noun

1. (obsolete) The calling back of a hawk.
2. (obsolete) The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.
3. An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.
4. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping) Clipping of baggage reclaim.

Synonyms

recover

tame

domesticate

regain

open up

reform

recoup

domesticise

domesticize

claim

retrieve

cultivate

regenerate

rectify

clear

criticize

call for

rescue

tell off

get back

take back

upbraid

repossess

scold

reimburse

reprimand

blame

exhort

deliverance

demand

reproach

clean

recycle

♻️

admonish

rebuke

develop

censure

knock

reclamation

reprove

farmland

fetch

fill

fill up

correct

repay

capitalise

deforest

cycle

backspace

Translations

recuperar

reclamar

reclamare

ontwoekeren

reprendre

addomesticare

domestiquer

herkrijgen

domesticar

wiedererwerben

wiedererlangen

zurückfordern

regagner

herwinnen

recouvrer

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹɪˈkleɪm/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: reclaymen

In summary

From Middle English reclaymen, recleymen, reclamen, from Anglo-Norman reclamer (noun reclaim and Middle French reclamer (noun reclaim), from Latin reclāmō, reclāmāre. Equivalent to re- + claim.